Charles harris and alfred t



(No Model.)

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BOTTLE WASHER.

No. 466,680. Patented Jan. 5, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HARRIS AND ALFRED T. GOODSELL, OF BRIDGEPORT, CON- NEGTIOUT.

BOTTLE-WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,680, dated January5, 1892.

Application filed July 8, 1891. Serial No. 398.796. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES HARRIS and ALFRED T. GooDsELL, bothcitizens of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bottle-VVashing Attachments l'or Faucets; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inattachments to faucets or stop-cocks for the purpose of washing bottles,and has for its object to provide a de vice of this description whichmay be readily attached to or detached from an ordinary water-cock andwhose action shall be effective.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of ourimprovement without the coupling-sleeve; Fig. 2, a similar view, but

with the coupling-sleeve in proper position;

Fig. 3. an elevation showing our improvement applied to a stop-cockwithout a coupling-thread, the sleeve in this case being of courseomitted; Fig. 4, an elevation illustrating our improvement applied to astopcock having a coupling-thread; and Fig. 5, a view similar to Fig. 4,but showing a slightly dilferent Way of applying our improvement.Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures ofthe drawings.

1 is a tube theextremities whereof are bent so as to extend in the samedirection. Around one end of the tube is a plug 2, of any suitablepacking material, as rubber, cork, (250., preferably tapering in form,so as to be readily inserted within a faucet or stopcock after themanner of an ordinary cork.

3 is a threaded coupling-sleeve loosely as I In applying our improvementto a stopcock whose nose is not threaded the plug 2 is simply forcedwithin the latter, as shown at Fig. 3, thereby securing the tube so thata bottle 5 may be placed over the free end of said tube for the purposeof washing. Ordinary stop-cocks, however, are generally provided with athreaded nose, and in this instance the plug is inserted within saidnose and the sleeve then driven on the latter until the plug is firmlyseated within the nose, as shown at Fig. 4.. In case the nose of thestop-cock is too small to contain the plug, the latter is simply abuttedagainst the nose and secured in this position by the threaded sleeve, asshown in Fig. 5.

Our improvement affords a very simple at tachment to a stop-cock for thepurpose of washing bottles, and is equally as effective as the largerand more expensive apparatus commonly used.

WVe claim- 1. A bottle-washing attachment for stopcocks, comprising arigid U-shaped tube, one end whereof is provided with a packing-plugadapted to be connected with the stop-cock, the other end affording ameans for properly supporting the bottle during washing, substantiallyas set forth.

2. In a bottle-washing attachment for stopcocks having a threaded nose,the combination of said nose with a U-shaped tube having at one end apacking plug, .and the threaded sleeve loosely assembled around saidtube below the plug and adapted to engage with the threaded nose,whereby said plug is firmly held against the latter, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES HARRIS. ALFRED T. GOODSELL.

l/Vitnessesz F. W. SMITH, J12. J. S. FrNcI-I.

